Nintendo's Big Cheese Stands Alone

[Seth]

but wait a tic, by not entering into the online market now, Nintendo is actually losing money because people are buying the other 2 sytems. Also, say someone owns a cube and xbox. They see NFL2k3. Which do you think they will buy. The xbox of course because they can play their cousing who lives 2000 miles away. Sure, online gaming may not be profitable from the start, but Nintendo is still losing money to sony and MS. The GC also has the disadvantage of not being equipped with a dvd player. Now, to us die hard gamers that's not a big deal. But, to the casual gamer, having a console/dvd player is a big incentive. So, "mature, larger library, and dvd" Those are huge points to the casual gamer looking to buy a console. Add on the fact that Nintendo isn't giving any hint of supporting online play and they wonder why their console isn't selling well. Geez, now that Nintendo hasn't made any indication of online support...it's almost too damn late for the system. They have to jump on the online bandwagon if they want to compete with sony/MS. Am i the only one who sees this logic. As for Nintendo's future console....people are going to be coming off of this console's generation and remembering what a ****up the GC was because Nintendo didn't make the right marketing moves. The "CASUAL GAMER" remembers all their casual gamer friends who wished that they had bought an xbox instead of their cube because all of their other friends could play each other online and also had a huge library/and mature games. So, not only is Nintendo screwing themselves over now but they're also screwing themselves over in the future console race. Also, if Nintendo keeps on relying on the GBA and ****ed up gimmicks to sell their system they won't be in the home console business for too much longer. Nintendo has to relize that online gaming is a must if they want to compete. In the end they'll be losing money because of their current marketing.